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Genocide Terror is a death metal band from Uusimaa, Finland, active since 2015, with releases including the Nerve Gas Holocaust EP and splits with Verpest and Assur among others. Their sound channels relentless, grinding death metal aggression across a steady stream of collaborative and solo releases.
Genocider is a death metal band from Silesia, formed in 2025. They represent the newest generation of Silesian death metal.
Brand new to the Los Angeles scene as of 2025, Genocidist wastes no time merging death metal's gore-soaked riffs with grindcore's frantic, sub-minute assault. Expect short songs, maximum violence, and zero filler.
Lansing, Michigan's Genocya has been weaving black and death metal together since 2011, crafting a sound that swings between icy tremolo passages and down-tuned, guttural extremity. They occupy that punishing middle ground where both genres drag each other deeper into the dark.
Genocídio is a death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 1986 and recognized as one of the country's early extreme metal forces alongside contemporaries such as Sarcófago and Vulcano. The band's obscure self-titled 1988 EP — later compiled by Nuclear War Now! Productions on "The Grave" (2021) with live tracks and demos — showcases their ferocious early sound, and the group has remained active through albums including "Under Heaven None" (2017) on Urubuz Records.
Genokeit is a Danish black metal project formed in 2018, channeling raw, uncompromising black metal from the Scandinavian underground. The project operates in the tradition of Danish extreme metal.
Brutal death metal project from Ankara formed in 2022, delivering guttural extremity from Turkey's capital city. Their punishing approach adds to Ankara's increasingly active death metal community.
Gentihaa is a symphonic death/black metal band from Athens, formed in 2019. They pair orchestral grandeur with extreme metal intensity from the Greek capital.
Kaliningrad-based sludge and stoner metal outfit formed in 2015, delivering low-tuned heaviness from Russia's Baltic exclave. Their fuzz-drenched sound channels the hypnotic repetition and crushing weight central to the sludge and stoner traditions.
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